Bill Text: HI HB869 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: State Matching Funds; Counties; Agriculture; Appropriation

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-12-01 - Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. [HB869 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB869-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  327

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

 

RE:   H.B. No. 869

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Agriculture, to which was referred H.B. No. 869 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AGRICULTURE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to establish a program to provide state matching funds for expenses incurred by the counties in supporting agriculture. 

 

     The Department of Agriculture supported the intent of this bill.  The Department of Budget and Finance submitted comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2020, to encourage further discussion; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for style, clarity, and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Agriculture that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 869, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 869, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Agriculture,

 

 

		____________________________ CLIFT TSUJI, Chair